good morning, i'm garvin thomas. alongside me is anthony slaughter. you're a busy man this week. >> we've got round two coming today and that's going to linger through tomorrow. it's going to be a stronger storm than we had yesterday. you've probably heard about it all evening and now this morning as we get ready for it, we are waiting for right now, cloudy skies out there, radar still fired up, but we don't have any right now. this is noon as we head toward afternoon, 5:00 sh 6:00, that's when the first rain drops start to fall across the north bay and then showers into the south bay tonight and could linger for tomorrow morning. so, tod so, today, temperature's will vary. in the north bay, temperatures are going to be cool, mid-60s, like we saw yesterday even in san francisco and the thing you're going to note today, you're going to notice it, big time, the winds are going to kim up this afternoon so if you still have that patio furniture outside, now's a good time to bring it in. >> may not be outside by the time the day over. >> yeah, really. >> w

garvin thomas. >> leah robbie was about to graduate from high school.she says she has learned a lot during her time there, not the least of which is that, when you're going through a difficult time, it's amazing how a community can come together to help. >> reporter: advanced placement calculus. it's something believe it or not leah robbie doesn't consider all that hard. perhaps it's because she has an aptitude for it. >> english, not so much. but i have just always clicked with math and science too. >> reporter: or perhaps it's because nothing in school could be called hard after the past decade for leah outside of it. >> i was like always a daddy's girl and, like, just like i kind of lost, i think, about where we'd be now, and i just don't have that. >> reporter: her father tom, an emergency room physician, dying notioned wi diagnosed with alzheimer's when he was 54 years old. leah was just 6. by the time leah was a teenager her life was far from typical. >> like the father/daughter dance, every time that rolled around it was like, oh, my god, should

i'm garvin thomas. see new bay area proud stories tuesday and thursday evenings on bay area at 5:00 p.m. if you know someone who should be featured on bay area proud, i would love to hear from you, on our website, nbcbayarea.com, scroll down to the bay area proud segment. thanks for joining us. have a terrific night. >>> megyn kelly's primetime fight with newt gingrich. our walking dead recap gets you ready for the weekend's new episode. grab the tissues, only we are on the set of nbc's hit this is us. welcome to access hollywood. i'm liz hernandez. a lot to cover. we start with another split that has reportedly hit hollywood. this time mariah carey and fiance james packer. for that we go to scott evans in new york. scott. >> thank you, liz. so is the engagement off? what will mariah do with her massive 35 carat engagement ring. reports claim the two have been struggling for a while. but when i sat down with mariah after james proposed all seemed well. did you know this was coming? any idea? >> no. an e

garvin thomas, nbc bay area news. >>> much more ahead on "today in the bay."g up, there's a drive through to stay healthy. flu season is upon us and health officials have an important reminder. >>> plus -- >> this is the first time we have ever taken a step like this. >> airbnb is suing its hometown of san francisco. coming up, we'll tell you what's behind the lawsuit and what it could mean for you. we can't go back to the years of devastating cuts to public education. exactly why i urge you to vote yes on prop 55. prop 55 prevents $4 billion in new education cuts without raising taxes on anyone. and there's strict accountability in prop 55. with local control over school funding decisions. and mandatory annual audits guaranteeing the money goes directly to our classrooms. not to bureaucracy, not to administration. so vote yes on 55. because it helps our children thrive. >>> good morning at 7:27. let's take a live look outside. the sun is coming up there in san jose. it's going to be a beautiful day. good day to get outside or maybe watch some football. good m

garvin thomas, nbc bay area. >> and much more ahead on "today in the bay." coming up, why the san francisco bay looked more like a hollywood movie set this weekend. >>> plus, furniture that's peeling off in bits and pieces. it might be in your home right now. consumers are demanding an explanation. nbc bay area responds to a national problem next. take a live look tside.... fr treasu island (adb) >>> good morning. you're watching "today in the bay." thanks for waking up with us. the sun is trying to peek through, but the clouds are rolling in over san francisco, and the rain is on the way. welcome back, everyone. we are going to get a check of our microclimate forecast. happy early halloween. >> happy early halloween. i'm going to say sunday, today is going to be a good day to stay indoors and watch football day unless you want to brave the wind and the rain because that cold front will be pushing through the area. we're expecting that rainfall to hit as early as about 9:45 for the north bay and san francisco area. right now you're already starting to see th

garvin thomas, nbc bay area news. >> i love stories like that! >> i love that story too!he seems like a talkative chap, that joe. how he has all these people over at his house. >> so nice to see! we'll be right back. >>> this should almost be breaking news here. m&ms will soon roll out a gooey new flavor. ca care mel flavored m&ms will come out in may. they'll have a smooth center and the same candy shell as the other candy. mars spent over two years developing the new flavor. they say it's going to be a permanent item. >> m&ms needs to hire you to read their descriptions. >> i am a candy girl. i like it. >> we were just talking about all the things we love. >> i am a chock hollic. >> we'll see nice food temperatures over the next few days. temperatures get a little cooler towards the weekend. by sunday night we'll see our first rain showers reappear across the bay area. enjoy the next few days. >> there we go. >> that does it for us right now. we'll see you again for the newscast at 5:00. have a great day. >> and tomorrow morning. >> and tomorrow morning! 7♪ >>> stand by

i'm garvin thomas with anthony slaughter. anthony, that storm ranger is on mt.ison right now and gives you as the rain -- you're going to tell us rain's coming. >> yeah. it is going to keep an eye on it. it's tracking the rain. we don't have any out there right now so you're not going to see it on the radar but it is ready to go. you can see it fired up right there, the red scan. the other ones are the national weather service sites but this is the thing about our nbc storm ranger. nbc has exclusive rights to it and also it scans the skies seven times faster and has a higher resolution than any other radar across the country. so, as this rain moves in, we will be watching it. nothing right now, but you can see it is up towards our north and as it puts the future cast into motion, you'll notice after about 3:00 this morning, 5:00, 6:00, you'll notice it in the north bay. san francisco, you'll see it around dinner time and then it spreads through the rest of the bay area as the sun goes down and this rain is going to linger into the night and could go all day forw

"today in the bay's" garvin thomas has this morning's bay area proud. >> liver donations, many people may not know, can be done from a living donor. roughly half of a person's liver is taken out and transplanted into a patient. it's a risky operation for both parties, but one joey carney was determined to do regardless of the outcome. >> reporter: as long as joey carney has been playing baseball, and that is, by far, for most of his life, it is still not accurate to say the sport is his first love. for this university of san francisco pitcher, that spot will always belong to the woman who introduced him to the game. >> started off kind of in the backyard, like i would be playing catch with my mom. >> reporter: the feeling was mutual, of course, and paula carney rarely missed one of joey's games throughout the years, until she started feeling ill and got some very bad medical news. >> in the spring of 2014, she went to the hospital, very ill, and we received the news that she had end stage liver disease. >> reporter: two years of searching for a treatment and eventually a living donor

garvin thomas, nbc bay area news. >> that's so great. much more ahead on "today in the bay."coming up, he didn't know he was a wanted man. the unusual way one suspect found out police were looking for him. >>> and people living in the sinking millennium tower revolt. what they're asking the city to do to keep them from losing everything. they prey on our children, spending billions. addicting 17,000 california kids each year. eventually killing one-third of them. now tobacco companies are spending millions to... defeat prop 56. because in every state that's raised tobacco taxes, smoking rates go down. so who are you going to trust? pediatricians, cancer groups and the califronia pta who all... support prop 56. or the tobacco companies trying to kill it. vote yes on 56. oaand (adlib) >>> good sunday morning. 7:28. let's take a live look outside. a look at oakland. the sun peeking out. could be some clouds, maybe even some rain today. good morning and thank you for joining us. i'm michelle roberts with anthony slaughter. kind of a mixed bag today. >> yeah. we are starting off w

>> our bay area proud series is a reminder of the great things that happen, and nbc bay area's garvin thomas brings them to us. >> we like to keep you up to date on what's happened to some of the people in our stories since they first aired. >> reporter: the most watched bay area proud story of the past year online is the one about chris sontag ratte and his dog with the unusual name of "everything." we shared how chris was devastated when "everything" passed a couple of years ago. as a way to remember his dog, he posted on instagram that he would send a tennis ball to anyone, anywhere who wanted to play with their dog. the response was overwhelming. well, we just heard from chris again. he said after some personal tragedy, he just needed the companionship of a good friend again. so there's a new dog in his life. a foster called "scooby." in 2015, we shared the story of ed dowd, a realtor who said he never understood the power of art until he donated a picture to a medical facility. the notes of thanks inspired him to do even more. he pledged $12 million to help build a new art and art histo

garvin thomas joins us with our bay area proud series. >> abe says the first time he decorated for halloween was when his son mike was 3. they lived in a townhome. as mike has grown, so have the displays, into full grown haunted houses that attracted thousands of visitors. this year they're even taking that to another level. >> this is last year, yeah. >> reporter: of all the ways that fathers and sons can bond. >> i didn't know that that was going to work. >> reporter: abe and mike's favorite is their unusual fondness for making other adults cry. >> it's great, by the way. >> it's fantastic. >> reporter: if that's your thing, halloween is your christmas. >> and we do it every night. >> reporter: for the past 20 years, abe and mike have been creating elaborate displays in their yard. they spend $10,000 to build it and don't ask a single penny to visit. >> it doesn't matter if you have a family of 12, if you don't have a job, you can come here and experience it. >> reporter: the two loved spending time on it and time together so much that this year they decided to turn professional. the berna

garvin thomas joins us. >> liver donations can be made from a living donor.oughly half of one person's liver taken out and transplanted into a patient. >> it's a risky operation for both parties. but one joey was determined to do, regardless of what happened next. as long as joey carney has been playing baseball, and that is by far for most of his life, it is still not accurate to say the sport is his first love. for this university of san francisco pitcher, that spot will always belong to the woman who introduced him to the game. >> started off in the backyard. i would be playing catch with my mom. >> reporter: the feeling was mutual, of course. and paula carney rarely missed one of joey's games through the years. until, that is, she started feeling ill and got some very bad medical news. >> in the spring of 2014, she went to the hospital very ill, and we received the news that she had end stage liver disease. >> reporter: two years of serviserve searching for a treatment and eventually a donor for paula came up empty. it was then that this relief pitcher wh

garvin thomas is here with tonight's bay area proud. >> reporter: leah is about to graduate from sanose's high school. she learned a lot during her time there, not the least of which is that when you're going through a difficult time, it's amazing how a community can come together to help. >> it would be like this. >> reporter: advanced placement calculus. it's something leah robby doesn't consider all that hard. perhaps it's because she has an aptitude for it. >> english, not so much. but i've just always clicked with math and science. >> reporter: or perhaps it's because nothing in school could be called hard after the past decade for lea outside. >> i was always a daddy's girl. and i kind of lost -- i think about where we would be now. and i just don't have that. >> reporter: her father, tom, an emergency room physician was diagnosed with alzheimer's when he was 54 years old. and lea, well, she was just 6. as leah grew and learned in life, her father traveled the opposite direction. by the time she was a teenager, her life was far from typical. >> li)ú tans, i was like, oh, my god

garvin thomas joins with us bay area proud. >> reporter: there's an old joke where someone on the streetsf new york asks, how die get to carnegie hall? "practice" is the answer. here is a student who knows that, as well as how to share her gift with others. before sitting down to play, she warned us she had only been practicing this piece for a couple of weeks. so, she said, it might be a little rough. ♪ we'll have to take her word for it. to us, megan certainly sounds like she knows what she's doing. good enough in fact to win competitions and perform at carnegie hall. which megan has done three different times. >> it's really nerve-wracking. it's amazing, just to somewhere where so many great musicians have performed before. >> reporter: for the past year megan has been coming to sacred heart community services in san jose to teach piano. for free. >> again. one more time. >> reporter: she says the idea really grew out of her own elementary school experience, when budget cuts ended her school's music program. >> that kind of like stung me a little bit, because i really missed the classe

garvin thomas is here with tonight's bay area proud. >> jill garcia says growing up in petaluma, his sister used to calm him an instigator. there is something he i believe so at this gated recently that affects him and the entire community. as the code enforcement officer he has the authority to write tickets. >> junk properties. >> reporter: it turns out what joe also possesses is the compassion not to. >> and it's going to be the house on the left here. >> reporter: which is exactly why this story has such a happy ending. >> not in the job description, no. but it's just -- it's in the description of being a human being. >> reporter: it all started with a complaint two years ago about a yard overgrown with weeds. >> have you ever had to replace the back fence. >> reporter: the yard belongs to al, an 89-year-old world war veteran. >> reporter: joe had to return multiple times as al tried and failed to get a handle on the situation. what's more, the inside of the house was not much better. still, instead of handing al a ticket -- joe decided to legend him a hand. >> we work with joe a

garvin thomas, nbc bay area news. >> but a piece of his heart missing forever. mpletely. >> thank you. >> thank you, garvin. we'll be right back. but one 12-year-o boy in tucson can not onlylv >>> for many, solving a rubik's cube may seem impossible. for one 12-year-old boy in tucson, he can't just solve the puzzle, but he can do it using his week. this is a video of luke sorenson solving the magic cube has gone viral. >> he discover the cube while at summer camp. he says he never solved one before, but over the course of three days he got faster and faster at doing it. his personal best is 37 seconds. but that's using his hands. is that cheating apparently? >> when our producer told us we would have the story, i thought, we're going to see a man with big feet solving a rubik's cube. but it was a boy. >> outside 70s, rain making a comeback midday tomorrow. >> flip-flop weather. >> one day only. >> galoshes tomorrow. see you tomorrow morning. glp >>> stand by, everyone. we're live in five, four, three, two, one. [ applause ] >> thanks for staying up for us. you we

"today in the bay's" garvin thomas has this morning's bay area proud. >> reporter: joe garcia says growing up in petaluma, his sister called him an instigator. but there is something that joe instigated recently that reflects well on him and his entire community. as petaluma's code enforcement officer, joe garcia has the authority to write tickets when he sees a problem. >> junk properties, trash and debris in the front yard. >> reporter: but it turns outs what joe also possesses is the compassion not to. >> it's going to be the house on the left here. >> reporter: which is exactly why this story has such a happy ending. >> not in the job description, no, but it's just -- it's in the description of being a human being. >> reporter: it all started with a complaint. two years ago, about a yard overgrown with weeds. >> have you ever had to replace the back fence? >> reporter: the yard belongs to al pericou, an 89-year-old world war ii veteran. >> little different there. >> reporter: joe had to return multiple times as al tried and failed to get a handle on the situation. what's more, joe disc

garvin thomas is here with their story in today's bay area proud. >> brandon beebee says his grandfather and some close friends have been helping him through some tough times lately. but it was a small act from someone he barely knew that is making the biggest difference in his life right now. any student at san jose state university should expect to expect some difficult classes along the way. what brandon beebee didn't expect, though, was having to make such a difficult decision before the school year even started. >> i had so little saved up. do i get a room to stay in, or i do pay tuition. >> reporter: this all goes back, brandon says, to the death of his father earlier this year. brandon had to shift his attention and his finances to helping take care of his family in los patos. still, not going to college was not an option. he had promised his dad. >> his last minutes, you know, i promised him, i'm going to get my degree. >> reporter: which explains why brandon began the semester staying not in a dorm, but in the front seat of his 1992 honda accord. >> i pulled up to a curb and loc

"today in the bay's" garvin thomas has their story in this morning's "bay area proud." >> reporter: brandon says his grandfather and some close friends have been helping him steer through some tough times lately, but it was a small act from someone he barely knew that is making the biggest difference in his life right now. any student at san jose state university should expect to face some difficult classes along the way. what brandon bebe didn't expect though was having to make such a difficult decision before the school year even started. >> i had so little saved up, do i get a room to stay or do i pay tuition? >> reporter: this all goes back, brandon says, not death of his father earlier this year. brandon had to shift his attention and his finances to helping take care of his family. still, not going to college was not an option. he had promised his dad. >> his last minutes, i promised him, i'm going to get my degree. >> reporter: which explains why brandon began the semester staying not in a dorm but in the front seat of his 1992 honda accord. >> i pulled up to a curb and locked the do